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Pranjan is thirsty for knowledge

Story - 13 Prajan Khan
Three year old  Prajan hails from Reay Road, one of the poorest slum communities in Mumbai. His father, Ibrahim Sheikh, is a petty trader and his mother, Shakila, is a housewife. Prajan has two brothers and one sister. Both his parents are illiterate. The family income is barely enough to make both ends meet.

Children like Prajan, from Mumbai slums, face educational deprivation in terms of generational illiteracy, physical access to education and quality of education as well. Though Prajan hails such from a disadvantaged background he can dream of a stable future with a good education because he studies at the Reay Road study center, run by Sahaara. Being close to Prajan§s house, the balwadi is a potent vehicle for transforming his future through quality education.

Sahaara’s balwadi has a systematic curriculum wherein children are equipped in the following subjects  over the period of a year: English and Hindi: alphabets and poems, writing skills, general knowledge (colours, animals, flowers, personal hygiene etc), colouring, games and activities such as counting and recognition

Prajan is a smart student who has good grasping and recall skills. He knows numbers 1-10 and the alphabets as well. He is a quiet child but has a hunger for learning more and more from the teachers. He is sociable and enjoys sharing his toys and things with other children.

Sahaara Charitable Society believes that every person has a dream, and their work centers around ensuring that marginalized persons are able to articulate and work towards achieving their dream. Sahaara’s early childhood education program gives children like Prajan, get a start which will help him break out of the poverty cycle and fulfill his dream of a stable future.

Your generous donation, Digvijay, will enable Sahaara to provide a year of pre-primary education to Prajan.

Thank you so much for your gift!

 




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